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Nicholas Metropolis

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#190

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#363

Historical Rank

#95

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Nicholas Metropolis's Degrees

PhD Physics University of Chicago
Bachelors Chemistry University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was a Greek-American physicist. Metropolis received his BSc and PhD in physics at the University of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Nicholas Metropolis's Published Works

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Equation of state calculations by fast computing machines (1953) (33873)
The Monte Carlo method. (1949) (2823)
THE BEGINNING of the MONTE CARLO METHOD (577)
The 3-j and 6-j symbols (1960) (567)
Equations of State of Elements Based on the Generalized Fermi-Thomas Theory (1949) (541)
On Finite Limit Sets for Transformations on the Unit Interval (1973) (509)
Phase shift analysis of 310-MeV proton proton scattering experiments (1957) (276)
MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS ON INTRANUCLEAR CASCADES. I. LOW-ENERGY STUDIES (1958) (272)
History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (1980) (188)
MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS ON INTRANUCLEAR CASCADES. II. HIGH-ENERGY STUDIES AND PION PROCESSES (1958) (184)
Witt vectors and the algebra of necklaces (1983) (109)
Calculations in the Liquid-Drop Model of Fission (1947) (85)
Second Virial Coefficients of He 3 and He 4 (1954) (73)
Combinatorial Structure of the Faces of the n-Cube (1978) (62)
Unnormalized Floating Point Arithmetic (1959) (55)
Nonlinear coupled oscillators: Modal equation approach (1973) (44)
Significant Digit Computer Arithmetic (1958) (41)
A history of computing in the twentieth century : a collection of essays (1980) (40)
A Trilogy on Errors in the History of Computing (1980) (35)
Solutions of the Fermi-Thomas-Dirac Equation (1951) (35)
The real numbers as a wreath product (1975) (33)
Vibrational Analysis of the Absorption System of Sulphur Dioxide atλ3400−2600 (1941) (32)
Statistical treatment of values of first 2,000 decimal digits of and of calculated on the ENIAC (1950) (31)
Symbolic Dynamics of Trapezoidal Maps (1986) (28)
Experimental arithmetic, high speed computing and mathematics (1965) (26)
Early Computing at Los Alamos (1982) (25)
Digital computer studies of cell multiplication by Monte Carlo methods. (1956) (21)
On Certain Sequences of Integers Defined by Sieves (1956) (20)
Characters of the symmetric groups of degree 15 and 16 (1954) (20)
A PROPERTY OF RANDOMNESS OF AN ARITHMETICAL FUNCTION (1953) (19)
A World Without War (1984) (19)
Permanents of cyclic (0,1) matrices (1969) (19)
A study of a numerical solution to a two-dimensional hydrodynamical problem (1959) (19)
Continued fraction expansions of algebraic numbers (1962) (19)
Monte Carlo: In the beginning and some great expectations (1985) (17)
Pion-Hydrogen Phase Shift Analysis between 120 and 217 Mev (1954) (16)
Stable states of a non-linear transformation (1967) (16)
The Structure of Electronic Bands of Polyatomic Molecules. I. Prolate Approximation for XY2Molecules (1941) (15)
Significance Arithmetic: The Carrying Algorithm (1973) (15)
Partitions into chains of a class of partially ordered sets (1978) (14)
Classification of all cycles of the parabolic map (1991) (14)
On the lattice of faces of the $n$-cube (1978) (13)
Symmetry classes: functions of three variables (1991) (13)
A new era in computation (1993) (13)
Statistical Study of Digits of Some Square Roots of Integers in Various Bases (1970) (13)
Massively parallel processing (1986) (12)
TABLE OF ATOMIC MASSES (1950) (12)
Basic Operations in an Unnormalized Arithmetic System (1963) (12)
On a class of (0,1) matrices with vanishing determinants (1967) (11)
Tradition and Discovery (1984) (10)
Hidden symmetry and the number-theoretic structure of the energy levels of a perturbed harmonic oscillator (1980) (10)
Algorithms in unnormalized arithmetic (1968) (9)
Phase Shift Analysis of the Scattering of Negative Pions by Hydrogen (1954) (9)
Theory of symmetry classes. (1991) (9)
A New Ultraviolet Band System of Silver Iodide (1939) (9)
A generalization of the gauss limit for iterated means (1971) (8)
Error Estimation in Computer Calculation (1965) (8)
Analysis of problem codes on the Maniac (1955) (8)
Algorithms in unnormalized arithmetic (1965) (8)
The Los Alamos experience, 1943–1954 (1990) (8)
Number-theoretic degeneracy of the energy levels of a perturbed N-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator (1981) (7)
Radix conversion in an unnormalized arithmetic system (1965) (6)
Analyzed Binary Computing (1972) (6)
Symmetry Classes of Functions (1995) (6)
The Enumeration of Graphical Partitions (1980) (5)
Study of tumor cell populations by Monte Carlo methods. (1955) (5)
Properties of Words on Four Letters from Those on Two Letters with an Application to DNA Sequences (1993) (4)
John R. Pasta, 1918-1981-An Unusual Path Toward Computer Science (1983) (4)
Significance Arithmetic: Application to a Partial Differential Equation (1977) (4)
New directions in physics. The Los Alamos 40th anniversary (1987) (4)
Square Roots of Integers 2 to 15 in Various Bases 2 to 10: 88062 Binary Digits or Equivalent (1969) (3)
The age of computing: a personal memoir (1993) (3)
The Consequences of Action (1984) (3)
Progress in Freedom (1984) (3)
THE BEGINNING of the (1987) (3)
Weapons Simulation Leads to the Computer Era by (1999) (3)
Methods of significance arithmetic (1976) (3)
Frontiers of supercomputing (1986) (3)
On Science and Culture (1984) (3)
MANIAC (1952) (2)
SIGNIFICANT DIGIT ARITHMETIC ON A CDC 6600. (1970) (2)
SIMULATION OF TWO ARITHMETIC STRUCTURES. (1968) (2)
SIMULATION OF THE SEL-810A COMPUTER ON MANIAC II (SELMA). (1966) (2)
Can Science Education Cope with the Information Onslaught (1984) (2)
I. Uncommon Sense (1984) (2)
James Leslie Tuck (1981) (2)
Critical amounts of uranium compounds (1943) (2)
Algorithms in unnormalized arithmetic II. Unrestricted polynomial evaluation (1967) (2)
Essays on the Future: In Honor of Nick Metropolis (2000) (2)
Erratum to: Algorithms in unnormalized arithmetic. I. Recurrence relations (1965) (2)
Significance arithmetic: Application to a partial differential equation (1975) (2)
A High Power Tungsten Light Source (1940) (2)
An elementary solution to a problem in restricted partitions (1970) (2)
The Generalized Serial Test Applied to Expansions of Some Irrational Square Roots in Various Bases (1970) (2)
Changes in the Optical Properties of CW (AIGa)As Junction Lasers During Accelerated Aging (1977) (2)
Summation of imprecise numbers (1980) (2)
Nonstandard analysis: an introduction based on lectures by G. C. Rota at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, June 1975 (1977) (1)
Approximation of the vth Root of N (1971) (1)
Monte Carlo method-a popular description (1949) (1)
To Live with Ourselves (1984) (1)
COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO COMPUTER ARITHMETIC. (1970) (1)
On Completely Normal (0, 1)-Matrices and Symmetrizability (1972) (1)
Proof of Theorem 4 [Part (ii)] (1986) (1)
Surveys in applied mathematics : essays dedicated to S.M. Ulam (1977) (1)
Significance arithmetic: the probability of carrying (1977) (1)
A Boolean Analysis of Addition and Multiplication (1977) (1)
ANALYSIS OF INHERENT ERRORS IN MATRIX DECOMPOSITION USING UNNORMALIZED ARITHMETIC (1963) (1)
Classical dynamics and Lie groups (1986) (0)
Science in Being (1984) (0)
Explicit Form for ψ (Tζ) (1986) (0)
L’Intime et le Commun—The Intimate and the Open (1984) (0)
Travelling to a Land We Cannot See (1984) (0)
Home | Excel Links | Excel Templates | Calendars SEARCH: Preface > Monte Carlo Simulation Basics (2007) (0)
Definition of LR-Sequences for Trapezoidal Curves (1986) (0)
LR-Sequences as Classes of Endomorphisms of R (1986) (0)
A Total Ordering of LR-Sequences (1986) (0)
Symposium on the logical organization of very high speed computers (1959) (0)
COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS IN INTRANUCLEAR CASCADE STUDIES (1959) (0)
The Power to Act (1984) (0)
Oral history interview with Nicholas C. Metropolis (1987) (0)
Some Generalizations to the Parabola (1986) (0)
Development of the applied mathematics originating from the group theory of physical and mathematical problems (1996) (0)
THE SECOND VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS OF He$sup 3$ AND He$sub 4$ (1953) (0)
Is the Universe a Universal Computer? a New Kind of Science (0)
Symmetric functions: a bijective identity (1988) (0)
Physics and Man’s Understanding (1984) (0)
Endomorphisms of R Associated with Symmetric Line-Pairs in R 2 (1986) (0)
In time of need. (1970) (0)
Some Extensions to Arbitrary Initial Point a ε I(0,2) (1986) (0)

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